Around 10-15 years ago, when communication was limited and prone to disruptions, businesses had no other way than to operate within the borders of their own countries.
But these days, globalization has enabled businesses to hire companies thousands of miles away from them to produce quality goods and services at a much cheaper price.

A great number of European companies are outsourcing their software development projects to nearby countries in the East where the cost of labor is lower and at the same time, there is a great number of experienced professionals.

Especially in the past few years, the income levels are rising and there is a lack of experienced IT professionals which was a signal to companies to start outsourcing or nearshoring part of their projects to other nearby countries.

The demand for quality software is linked to achieving business goals and obtaining a higher market share.

Despite offshoring, with considering nearshoring as an option, there are a lot of benefits for both parties.

There are many proven benefits of using nearshoring for finishing your IT projects. Some of them are:

• Software development companies can save a lot of time, money, and resources and in most cases, they acquire long-term partnerships with great potential for other projects.

Offshoring vs Nearshoring

In general, European software development companies are outsourcing their IT projects because of the availability of IT experienced developers in other countries and to cut their costs and efforts.
With outsourcing, there are 2 options for companies to consider: offshoring and nearshoring.

Offshoring has many more disadvantages than advantages in a comparison with nearshoring.
There a many hidden costs for travel because of long distances, bad communication mostly from the different time zone, cultural differences, and language barriers.

With nearshoring, these issues are skipped. From cheaper travel costs, a similar time zone with a difference from 1-2 hours, similar culture.

Similarly, North Macedonia has the perfect position for European companies to outsource their IT projects. There is well-developed infrastructure and cheap flights. The same time zone is a great benefit for good communication with the IT team.

Also, in North Macedonia, there are a lot of qualified professionals with experience in the IT field and experience with remote work for other European companies.

As a software development partner for EU-based, Nearshore Macedonia understands the challenges and restrictions faced by software companies when it comes to a software development project and their deadlines. We know you need to move quickly and control expenses, with access to highly skilled and experienced IT engineers to deliver a software product on time and on budget.

The market may not wait for your internal IT team to be available or to start a process of the requirement of new appropriate staff, skilled in every step required by the specifications of your software development project.
Additionally, your project may require a deep and specific understanding of technology and if you were to spend the time recruiting and onboarding those specialists, you’d lose a lot of time and effort.
This is why we’ve focused on providing premium nearshore software development services to other companies.

Contact us for more info or to schedule a call where we will explain more about us and our software development services.

There are constant changes in software development trends year by year. With the evolution of technology, businesses need to be up to date with new changes in order to stay competitive with other businesses.

Take a look at the shortlist of top software trends in 2022 and stay competitive:

Software quality standards

With the rising demand for software. There is a need of establishing quality standards such as ISO certification. Working by ISO standards and adapting processes to these rules and policies, there will be in the near future a lot of benefits. Following ISO standards will be a very important part of software development this year.

Code standards

Writing code with clear guidelines will be the focus of this year’s trends.

Cybercity

This is one more popular software development trend with expectations to grow this year. Modernization of businesses, applications, and technology will be the focus of many companies.

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a growing trend and for now is broadly used by many startups, different industries, institutions, etc.

Microsoft and Google are already providing cloud computing to individuals and businesses.

JavaScript

JavaScript is still a perfect language for creating modern and functional software solutions.

DevOps

DevOps is a modern approach consisting of a set of practices, tools, and a cultural philosophy that automates and integrates the processes between software development and IT teams.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial intelligence is transforming software development.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most popular and fastest-growing software development trends used for modern and highly innovative technologies.

AI algorithms can improve project planning, aid with automation QA (quality assurance), and enhance user experience. A recent report found that AI-enhanced software development increased the productivity of a developer by 10 times.

In order to develop modern and innovative applications, businesses need to understand the latest software trends in 2022. With the ever-growing technologies, there will be more software development trends in the upcoming years.

Nearshore Macedonia is a software development company that is focused mainly on the development of clients’ projects with tight schedules. We are always striving to be always on the edge of modern technologies working within Agile principles and ISO 27001 standards.

Our clients are assured that their personal information is always safe. Our team works in the software development life cycle in agile with short sprints with great communication on a daily basis.

Contact us at Nearshore Macedonia to discuss your requirements and get the best solution for your software development project. The team of Nearshore Macedonia consists of highly skilled and experienced IT specialists. Our added value lies in the development of challenging web solutions. We invest in long-term relationships and have extensive experience working with international clients.

Adoption of a software development methodology has always been perceived to be a useful and helpful framework that helps the project team to structure, plan and control the development of IT processes, products, and services. 

Agile and traditional software development methodology approaches are used in a combination in today’s software development. Agile software development methodology has had a huge impact on how software is developed worldwide. To improve the understanding and to provide better guidance for selecting appropriate software development methodology approaches, it is important to analyze such combinations in practice. Results obtained from an online survey or case studies strongly confirm that hybrid development approaches are widely used in industry.

The agile software development methodology is widely adopted nowadays by software development companies of every kind. Industry case studies show that virtually all organizations use agile processes to some extent, and over half of them have agile software development methodologies as their usual approach to software development. However, managing Agile projects may be challenging, especially in the case of small and medium enterprises.

There are a huge number of case studies, and they didn’t provide a unified view of current practice. Instead, they offered a broad picture of experience and some contradictory findings.

Most studies reported that agile software development methodologies are easy to adopt and work well. The benefits appeared in customer collaboration, work processes for handling defects, learning among developers, thinking ahead for management, focusing on current work for engineers, and software estimation.

Currently, in many software developments companies, teams are using various specific tools (such as Jira, GitLab, and SonarQube) in order to support the development process and the quality of the code and products. This is usually done in a regular retrospective meeting that involves all the team members. As far as the code quality is concerned, those tools provide sufficient information for the Scrum Team.

The scientific literature shows that measurement is integral to understanding and assessing software development projects. Software development methodology involves many processes, and measurement enables companies to characterize, control, predict, and improve those processes. Software process measurement can help in achieving the desired level of performance, capability, and quality. Moreover, measuring software processes also allows learning about the quality of the software product.

The increasing popularity of Agile software development methodology makes understanding software metrics in the agile context more relevant.

Agile’s focus on lightweight practices, continuous delivery of working software, flexible development phases, and minimal documentation make it necessary for measurement programs to be well aligned with the Agile mindset and the principle of simplicity. In the case of process metrics, software processes are complex and intangible, making software process measurement challenging in practice.

Q-Rapids was a collaborative industry-academy project involving three research partners and four companies. It proposed innovative methods and tools to support the software development industry in improving their quality levels (software and process) when using Agile and Rapid software development.

All the partners worked together under a co-creation strategy. Besides, every company adapted the results as they were produced, to the specific needs of the company. The Q-Rapids approach is based on gathering and analyzing data from several sources (software repositories, project management tools, system usage, and quality of service).

Data is aggregated into quality indicators that are rendered to the different stakeholders by means of the QRapids tool. The Q-Rapids tool, because of the project, provides continuous assessment of the quality-related strategic indicators to decision-makers.

There are a set of metrics that are effective for the diagnosed problems:

The metrics can be divided into several categories:

– General metrics. Following the Scrum Team observations, we propose an indication of the total number and the average number of development tasks, a number of tasks based on their status, e.g. completed, closed, and average time of tasks lifetime.

-Task estimation metrics. This category includes the metrics related to planning an effort allocation and analysis of effort/resources consumption. They can indicate the accuracy of such estimation, including an average deviation of estimation in relation to the real effort consumption, the total sum of estimated or used resources as well as the completeness of task estimation.

Similarly, to general metrics, those related to task estimation also can be calculated in different dimensions, such as taking assignees, projects, sprints, or time range into account.

The team usually spends 15 to 20 minutes visualizing and analyzing these selected process metrics. Process metrics are a great fit since this part of the meeting is devoted to people, processes, tools, lessons learned, and how to improve the way of working. Of course, the role of the Product Owner and Scrum Master is to make those discussions and displays interesting, but this turned out to be an easy job for them. The most important advantage of the process metrics is the focus on the process and team effectiveness.

There are many benefits for the companies that are using agile software development methodology: increased transparency, greater knowledge, improved team collaboration, and bigger flexibility.

Nearshore Macedonia is a software development company that is focused mainly on the development of clients’ projects with tight schedules. We are always striving to be always on the edge of the modern technologies working within Agile principles and ISO 27001 standards.

Our clients are assured that their personal information is always safe. Our team works in the software development life cycle in agile with short sprints with great communication on a daily basis.

Contact us at Nearshore Macedonia to discuss your requirements and get the best solution for your software development project. The team of Nearshore Macedonia consists of highly skilled and experienced IT specialists. Our added value lies in the development of challenging web solutions. We invest in long-term relationships and have extensive experience working with international clients.

Many of the companies which are involved in creating software solutions are asking and researching about steps of selling software development services. The second term that they are also thinking about is how to increase the revenue and organize the whole sales team.

Writing the code and developing the best software solution within the deadline is a hard process. But also selling software development services is consisted of different complex steps that every company needs to follow. In this case, the process is different from selling other products which are not abstract for example.

Developing the right strategy for selling software development services

• The first thing that every company needs to consider is creating and analyzing the target audience.

In simple words, the target audience is the demographic characteristics of people that are most likely to be interested in our software development services.

The more specific the target audience is, the better will be the results. While it is important to reach as many people as possible, focusing on the segmented groups is essential. Every company must know its target audience, characteristics, behaviors, interests, education, age, and gender, etc.

It is also a good starting point for our strategy to know who our target audience is not, to exclude this group of people from our further activities. After that we can create different groups based on similar characteristics and depend on interests and characteristics, we will develop different strategies in order to have great success in selling software development services.

• Communication with our target group is essential for creating long-term relationships.

The next important thing to consider in selling software development services is that we sell expertise provided by a group of skilled professionals. Every company needs to prove the expertise of the team or with simple words to promote the team.

• Create different case studies about past projects, customers feedback, reviews.

The potential client can see the challenges of creating particular software and how the team members effectively overcame them. Also, short webinars are an effective way for the potential client to know more about skills that possess every team member.

• A well-designed, informative, and user-friendly webpage is a must, especially in this industry.

A professional website with a section about services that we offer, which technologies our team members are using, portfolio page, contact page, and our team section is something that every company needs to consider at the beginning. Using clear headings, high-quality pictures and videos are the main points in creating an impressive website.

• As I mentioned before, it is critical to have customer testimonials, reviews, feedback.

A good strategy is to give our customers something for free. For example, a 14 free trial of the product, free assistance, or free access to new upgrades.

Defining and analyzing the competition

We need to define which companies are our competition and make research about them. The best strategy is to choose up to 5 companies and see how they offer and sell software development services, price range, check their website and online presence. Competition analysis should be our starting guide and not use this information for important company decisions.

Defining our potential markets in the future

A potential market is part of the market that at the moment we are not selling software development services, but we want to attract in the future. With expanding our services maybe in some other industry niches, using new technologies or developing other software solutions we might target new groups which are important for business growth. By defining our potential markets and striving to acquire them in the future, we will show that we have plans and ideas and think outside of the box.

Creating marketing plan

This is a guide on how to communicate with our target audience in order to have success in selling software development services. This guide is much more than only counting the goals that we want to achieve. This guide is more like an outcome that we desire, and we can achieve and what kind of strategies to implement. A comprehensive marketing guide is essential to find market needs for our product or services.

As main elements of every marketing plan, we should consider:

• Business goals

• Business strategies

• Metrics

• Report

It is very important to determine which added value our target audience will have from using our services or product and in what segment we are better than the competition. It is very important for our target audience to be aware that we understand their problem.

Many companies are struggling with finding experienced in-house teams of developers. In the last years especially in the developed countries, it is very hard to find a skilled team or if you find the costs are increasing year by year. The solution for this problem is to find remote outsourcing teams in another nearby country with fewer costs, similar time zone, and cultural characteristics. You can read more about nearshoring your IT services to N.Macedonia.

For example, our developers at Nearshore Macedonia are having great experience in the software development field. All of them are with +10 years of experience in this field using new technologies and working on different complex projects for different clients in another country.

Read more about the advantages of choosing a remote software development team in another country, what are the difference between offshoring and nearshoring, and what is your best option.

Learn more about our dedicated team, our finished projects, technologies that we used to create the best software solution for our clients.

Advertising software development services that we offer

Using one single strategy and advertising on only one channel is not a good idea. If you have a limited budget, you can start by searching forums in your industry. By offering your software development services or software product you need to solve some problems for the participants to the particular forum. You can also share a link from your website to learn more about the company.

The technology niche is one of the most promising and more competitive niches. Selling software development services in this niche is not an easy goal. Technology is not a static niche. There are still new competitors.

In many cases, text content may be boring and a good video can be a good replacement for the text content. But, with creating videos must be very careful. The video needs to be short, relevant, educational, and engaging.

Through social media channels, you can share useful knowledge and education instead of continually selling software development services.

Facebook offers many options for detailed targeting on your audience and offers high control of who will see your ad. Creating a business page is free and recommended. Here we have many options to share information for our software development services, share links from the website to increase traffic, share testimonials from satisfied customers. With one word this is an extremely powerful platform for advertising software development services worldwide.

Creating a Facebook group for this niche is recommended, because the company can connect with decision-makers of other companies who are searching for outsourcing teams in another country, to explain to them the benefits of hiring remote teams in other countries, sharing educational content, and creating trust with the target audience.

Every separate target audience is active on this platform in a different part of the day. It is useful to make initial research on which part of the day and which days our target audience is most likely active here and to post that period of the week and hour. Furthermore, this platform has excellent insights and reporting tools to measure and improve the results.

Google offers advertising options but is more expensive than Facebook. So, if you are in a lacking budget, you can bypass this kind of advertising in the beginning.

LinkedIn is a professional platform and a company that offers software development services may have the great benefit of using it. Here the profile should look professional. LinkedIn today is a place where is establishing communication between business professionals, connecting with decision-makers in different niches, and many other options.

Creating a blog page on the website and sharing useful content is a very powerful strategy. Quality and long content with included images, infographics, videos are important things to consider. Investing time in creating good content with creating a solution to some problem or giving advice in your niche is something that the people are willing to read and engage.

Building an email list and creating long-term relationships with the audience is also another powerful strategy. There are many tools to automate and easily manage lists with more than 1000 subscribers. There are a lot of options: to segment, the audience, send personalized emails without being too aggressive. This kind of strategy is low cost and with a high return on investment.

Conclusion

Selling software development services is not an easy task. In this case, the process is different from selling other products which are not abstract for example. Creating and analyzing the right target audience is the first thing that every software development company should consider.

There are many strategies to consider, and every company should avoid advertising only on one channel. A good strategy is to give to the customers something for free. For example, a 14 free trial of the product, free assistance, or free access to new upgrades.

Also creating a blog section and continually updating with long, unique, informative content is a very good starting point.

It is very important to determine which added value our target audience will have from using our services or product and in what segment we are better than the competition. It is very important for our target audience to be aware that we understand their problem. Many companies are struggling with finding experienced in-house teams of developers. In the last years especially in the developed countries, it is very hard to find a skilled team or if you find the costs are increasing year by year. The solution for this problem is to find a remote outsourcing team in another nearby country with fewer costs, similar time zone, and cultural characteristics.

You can read more about nearshoring your IT services to N.Macedonia.

Are you ready to take the next step in nearshoring your software development services?

Contact us at Nearshore Macedonia to discuss your requirements and get the best solution for your software development project. The team of Nearshore Macedonia consists of highly skilled and experienced IT specialists. Our added value lies in the development of challenging web solutions. We invest in long-term relationships and have extensive experience working with international clients.

Companies that work on developing a different kind of software are struggling with finding a relevant skilled developer who will deliver the best software solution without delay. Many of the companies who did not manage to find an in-house skilled team or to expand the existing one are forced to not accept new projects because they haven’t the capacity to work on a new work task.

That is why companies started to think about hiring remote teams in other countries instead of wasting time and resources to search for an in-house team. In the text below we will talk more about the pros and cons of using offshore software development services and how to choose your best option.

With simple words in practice, the term offshore software development services mean searching and hiring an external company or team of developers to build a software solution or work on a part of a project outside of the client’s country.

Hiring an in-house team of developers to work on these tasks requires a lot of time, resources, time for education, etc. That is the main reason why many companies decide to avoid extra expenses and hire a team of remote developers outside of the country. In most cases, companies who offer offshore software development services already have an experienced team of developers and they can start with the projects as soon as possible.

The current pandemic situation has also done its part in speeding up the adoption into the new form of work environments where remote teams and outsourcing teams are the new normal.

For small business owners or founders of startups, hiring a remote team of developers in another country is a game-changer. Some statistics showed that remote teams are more loyal to employers and more dedicated. Small business owners also must be more cautious with spending and investing. Hiring outsourcing or nearshoring company in other countries seems

There are different approaches when some companies decide to outsource software development projects:

• Outsourcing all the activities that are related to the development and maintenance

• Outsourcing part of the project

Offshoring software development services also means that the vendor company is in another country with a different time zone. The other also a good alternative to relocating the business is nearshoring in the nearby country with the same or similar time zone.

One of the leading outsourcing destinations is N. Macedonia and there are many established companies with deep industry experience. N. Macedonia is a small country located in the center of the Balkan Peninsula with approximately 2 million citizens. Statistics show that in the period of five years N. Macedonia sold the world computer services costing more than 240 million euros. Experts claim that except for the export in free zones, the IT service export is one of the most stable and most evolving exporting sectors in N.Macedonia.

N Macedonia is a fast-developing IT center backed by a strong literate community and government-supported IT infrastructure. Macedonian development companies are known for their strong work ethics, multilingual developers adept at communication skills, flexible work terms, and cost-effective hiring solutions.

Read more about why to nearshore your projects to N. Macedonia companies. Cultural similarities, extremely skilled developers, language skills, similar time zone, good geographical locations are some of the advantages that every company will get if choose to partner with a company from here.

You can effectively schedule virtual meetings and coordinate workflow across the teams easily in real-time.

In the process of choosing the best appropriate company that offers nearshore or offshore software development services, there are a few things that every client needs to be aware of in order to choose the best partner.

The first thing is to plan properly due diligence process.

This is a very important step, and every company should not skip it.

What exactly means this in the offshore software development services business?

This involves an examination of potential vendor companies, already finished projects, and their quality, background check of the developers, comparison of the costs, etc.

A legal background check on the vendor is a crucial point to start with. By dedicated time to this step, a potential risk can be eliminated from the start.

An advantage you should consider in choosing an appropriate vendor is having ISO 27001 certification. This is a leading standard focused on information security and is a combination of policies and processes that companies should use. Because it is an international standard, ISO 27001 is easily recognized all around the world, increasing business opportunities for organizations and professionals.

Our company Nearshore Macedonia has established ISO 27001 2 years ago and we are fully dedicated to our client’s information security. We had created many policies, procedures, and processes that helped us to increase the level of information security, and also, we continually measure the results in order to improve in the future.

The basic goal of this standard is to protect three main aspects of information:

• Confidentiality

• Integrity

• Availability

Companies that have acquired ISO 27001 have better organization in a comparison with other companies. In terms of complying with laws and legal requirements, companies that are ISO 27001 certified to have a well-structured methodology for how to comply with required laws. This is only a quick update on why everywhere in the world ISO certified companies have a big advantage over competitors.

As an ISO 27001 certified company, we formally adopted a broad set of security best practices, and this certification confirms our commitment to the security, confidentiality, and high availability of our software development.

It is a good practice before finally deciding which company vendor you will choose, visit the company’s office, spent time with developers, see work culture and working environment.

There are many advantages to working with outsourcing partners:

If we compare companies who offer offshoring software development services vs nearshoring companies who offer the same kind of services, geographical proximity is a huge plus for nearshoring companies. This also means the same or similar time zone and quick travel time frames.

For example, N. Macedonia is in the CET time zone. Only 1-hour difference from the UK time zone and the same time zone as the Netherlands. This makes the whole outsourcing and nearshoring process very easy, and communication goes very well. Regular meetings in the same or similar time zone can be held very easily through Skype, Zoom, Slack, etc.

This is not the case with offshoring companies that have different time zone and require extra costs for traveling. This makes communication a lot more difficult, and we all know that communication is key for high-quality, cost and time-efficient work.

Reasonably lower costs are a common character for both nearshoring and offshoring software development companies. In these countries, the costs of living are lower than the costs of living in the country where the company is based. According to rough estimation, you can save around 30-40%. Also, you do not need a bigger office and equipment for a remote team. So, this is an extra expense which you could bypass. With hiring a remote team, business owners will have more time to dedicate to other activities for growing the company, additional marketing activities, elaboration of new ideas, searching for interesting new projects, etc.

Cost-saving is no longer the main factor for one company to decide to outsource or nearshore their projects. Also, a great benefit is improving business performance on the whole company, despite lower costs. The value of outsourcing is now measured less by costs saved and more by how it can help enable strategic growth, through rapid access to talent, increased agility, and improved quality of service delivery.

In this article, we want to present a short case study of successful outsourcing among big and successful company as Slack.

Slack is a new way for communication in real-time. It is faster, better organized than an email. There are a lot of features like private messaging, chat rooms, private groups and with one word the best and most used tool for business communication. This company has outsourced design and app development services from the beginning. At the same time became a startup that outsourced its development and acquire in the first 2 weeks, 15000 users.

The same example is with WhatsApp. In 2021 WhatsApp was a small organization with only 30 employees. In order to cut costs and find the best appropriate and skilled developers, the company decided to outsource and hire remote teams in East Europe.

There are also many similar case studies with Google, Alibaba, and other companies.

Important points to consider when you need to hire a remote outsourcing team of developers:

The concept of outsourcing started in the 1990s and these days is known not only as a cost-cutting option, but also and business strategic planning. From outsourcing, great benefits have all types of business, especially software development companies. Business owners have more time and resources to dedicate to the core business activities. Despite cost-cutting, with hiring remote outsourcing teams in another country, you will save time and resources in searching for a house team.

Also, it will take a lot of time to educate new employees. In developed countries in the past few years, there is a shortage of skilled developers with experience in some fields. or they are available but for higher costs. In a lack of resources, it is harder to close down in-house teams, rather stop working with remote outsourcing of nearshoring team.

A quick evaluation of the vendor company. Having an ISO 27001 standard implemented is a huge plus in choosing the best partner. Every ISO certified company works within strictly defines policies and procedures and information security is the number one priority. Demonstration of on tech skills and portfolio with finished similar projects is another thing to consider. Try to collect more info about past projects and reviews. Location of the company and time zone is crucial for effective communication. Choose your potential vendor with the same or similar time zone, in this case, you will haven’t communication issues and the projects will run smoothly without deadlines.

Nearshore Macedonia is a software development company consisting of experienced and well-skilled developers. Over the years we worked on different projects using the latest technologies without delaying and creating the best software solution possible.

You can read more about our team and schedule a quick call to introduce ourselves and the projects on which we are working. Our offices are located in Skopje, N. Macedonia. located in the center of the Balkan Peninsula with approximately 2 million citizens. N. Macedonia has 2 airports that cover flights no longer than three hours to all major cities on the continent.

Keeping sensitive information secure and complying with all legal requirements will result in happier customers who will have the trust to work with us which is essential for a functional business relationship.

Learn more about our nearshoring services and tell us about your requirements for your next IT project. We will deliver the best solution for your business.

When it comes to the development of a project one of the biggest concerns is how will it cost. Hundreds of pieces of web applications are created every month. Every client wants to know in advance the time length of the projects and estimated software development costs. To know the exact cost of the project at the beginning of the project is impossible.

But we can find crucial factors that have a direct influence on software development costs:

1. General trends in software development costs for other similar projects. It is recommended to get in touch with other experienced IT companies to have the most realistic cost estimation.

2. According to surveys software development costs are within the range from 5000-50000 euros in the time period up to 9 months. Every project is unique and there is not a guide template. As a rough estimation, we can create a calculation where we will multiply needed hours with the average cost for developers. There are always non-development activities that need consider at the end. Inaccurate estimations may result in missing deadlines and breaking budgets.

3. Project complexity. The more features are added to the project the more complex it becomes and there will be needed more time for developing, testing, improving. All these things increase software development costs.

4. User experience. The cost of the designer may vary depending on the requirements. If the product’s visual appearance is poor, there are big chances the client be unsatisfied.

5. Every project must have a professional team consisting of a frontend developer, backend developer, project manager, and quality assurance engineer. The team size may vary depends on requirements and project complexity. If you hire a few people less to cut the costs, it is very possible that the needed deadline will be missed.

6. In the long run, using agile methodology can be the most cost-effective approach. This is a method of managing a project by breaking it into several phases. Involves constant communication and continuous improvement at every stage. Each repetition consists of two- to four-week sprints, where each sprint’s goal is to build the most important features first and come out with a potentially deliverable product.

At Nearshore Macedonia, we are highly committed to building the best software solution within the deadline, that meets your business and budget requirements.

Contact Us for more info about our software development services and schedule a free consultation to discuss in more detail.

Nearshore software development is a game-changer, especially in this post-Covid 19 period. Covid 19 changed the dynamics of the people that includes how to work, what to buy and what to do for entertainment.

Because of pandemics, business leaders have shifted their perception of nearshore software development. With more teams and staff now working remotely, they see the potential benefits and cost savings for nearshoring.

The pandemic has also affected the dynamic for the businesses to adapt and act quickly. According to many leaders and stakeholders, businesses will never back to a “business as usual”. The healthcare industry is experiencing the most urgent need for digital reinvention.

New technology solutions as telemedicine, secure data for patients, predictions software, process secure data and improve the user’s experience started before the pandemic and now are in the process of development acceleration.

The demand for this kind of company to incorporate more innovative approaches and build custom products is rising every day. Now, more than ever, it is of crucial importance for healthcare companies to find a reliable and experienced partner to implement these changes with good quality and within the deadline.

Healthcare companies can have a big benefit from partnerships with nearshore software development companies as a cost-effective solution and at the same time experienced IT developers.

There are a lot of misconceptions about cost reduction that nearshoring is always part of lower work quality due to cultural misunderstanding and low communication quality.

N. Macedonian culture is strongly aligned with EU countries’ culture. The environment encourages collaborative communication between companies, with similar time zone, strong English skills, similar cultures, and increased quality for the software solution processes.

Our team at Nearshore Macedonia is proactive and we are not just meeting the minimum requirements, but we are creating engagement through the whole software development process becoming a part of the company. Time zone compatibility is one of the most well-known advantages of nearshoring.

Healthcare companies manage large amounts of sensitive information from their consumers, making security and data privacy a top priority when they are choosing a partner to work with.

Here at Nearshore Macedonia, we have implemented ISO 27001 standard for information security. Data protection takes part in every step of software development. Our team has years of experience in the healthcare industry working on different projects. By applying practices like software development, DevOps engineering, quality assurance, performance engineering to healthcare projects, we have generated value for our clients and strengthened our position on the market.

If we assume that you had written a good CV with a cover or motivation letter and the recruiters choose you from the candidates, then the next step is the remote job interview process!

This period because of Covid 19, remote job interviews has become increasingly common. Online interviews require some additional preparation. You will need to figure out who will place the call, on which online platform. A technical trial run before the interview is a good point to have enough time to adapt if anything is not working properly. Login information, computer camera, microphone, and internet connection are some of the basic things to check before starting the remote job interview process.

It is also a good option to have a backup plan if something went wrong before the interview. Look professional. Your dress code should be the same if you are having the interview in person.

Whether is a remote job interview process or face to face interview, some period of preparation is a must

Checking the company’s website and reading more about the company is key. About us page and their Blog page are the more important sections you need to read before the remote job interview. On their Blog page, you can check the latest posts and events and go through headlines to get a basic idea of the company.

Find out how this company is different from the competition and in which way the products are better than the competition. Analyze the job description and required skills. It is also helpful to find reviews from clients and employees.

Make a list of assets of your skills, certifications, awards that are critical for the job applications.

Think about some case studies from the previous job that matches the desired skills. If you are fresher, make a list of the achievements that you had while you were an intern in the company.

Practice at home the whole remote job interview process and prepare your job interview outfit.

Dressing appropriately is very important even on a remote interview and is a part of the first judgment. The outfit depends if you are going on the interview with a formal dress code, casual startup or you are applying for an internship. Generally, you should look professional with your outfit and avoid dressing too flashy or too bright items.

Nowadays, the most popular is the business casual look. This kind of outfit is less formal but still looks professional.

An important part is a hairstyle also. There are various trends from trendy to traditional, but generally, your hairstyle should look professional. The make-up should be in pastel colors and to not distract the recruiter.

LinkedIn is an online platform where you can make a free profile which will be your professional landing page.

It is a great way to tell people who you are, your achievements, education, goals. A well-optimized profile can help you to connect with recruiters from the whole world and get the job that you wanted.

You should not put the whole CV there, only to write the important things from your career path. You should put your skills and interests.

It is essential to have a well-optimized profile. The profile picture should be professional. Below the picture very important is to write 2-3 sentences about yourself and your professional goals. How can you help with your skills the potential companies who are hiring.

On this platform you can very easily make connections with recruiters, colleagues, join different groups in your field of interest where you can exchange knowledge and experience.

Writing articles and posts are very useful to connect with people, to read, like, and share your articles.

Here at Nearshore Macedonia, we invest a lot of time and resources to hire the best software developers, to work with the latest technologies, and on long-term and interesting projects in the health industry. The health industry, especially nowadays is a field where they have a chance to acquire new and upgrade the knowledge.

Looking for a long-term nearshoring software development partner for your project in this industry?

Contact us and schedule a meeting to introduce ourselves and our finished projects.

What to choose in 2021?

Nearshoring software development projects is a business trend that will keep expanding.

In the past, most of the companies choose to nearshore their projects with cost reduction as a basic goal. Today this reason is important but is not a priority. Now the most priority is accessing the top talents worldwide and most innovative technologies.

The 3 key advantages of nearshoring software development projects are:

• Cost reduction. Searching and recruiting experienced and talented developers is difficult, expensive, and takes a lot of time. By hiring nearshoring team, these costs you can avoid.

• Fast time to market. Building an internal team will take you much more time and resources. In the best scenario recruiting an experienced specialist takes about 2-3 months. With hiring nearshoring team, the software development projects can start right at the moment. And accelerate the time to market your product.

• Proven experienced teams. Your nearshore team has the experience and had worked on many different projects. They know how to communicate efficiently and define their goals to deliver the best result possible. Your team can be expanded with a project manager, quality assurance engineers, etc.

The 3 potential risks that you should consider are:

There are also a several risks from nearshoring your software development projects and you should consider them before you begin the work process.

• Communication issues. Partnering with a company with an entirely different time zone can bring some potential issues with communication.

• Limited control over the team. Nearshoring the critical task of building your project can be risky, because of the limited control that you have. But, still it is important to keep in mind that these nearshoring teams follow project management standards with frequent communication.

• Limited motivation. It is easy to monitor in house team. Monitoring nearshoring team is a challenging process. The best solution to this problem is to collaborate with a team where each developer works exclusively on your project.

The answer to avoiding the potential risks is to collaborate and sign a contract with a reliable company with a team of experienced developers.

The team at Nearshore Macedonia put a lot of effort to have good and frequent communication with clients, deliver the best results and follow all management standards in the software development process. Our quality assurance engineer is here to test the projects before the final finish. We are also an ISO 27001 certified company, which means that your sensitive information is safe with partnering with us.

Contact Us for more information about our experienced team and our finished projects.